Best Plays

These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important.

SERIOUS LULU BELLE--Lenore Ulric in an unrestrained tale of flaming youth in Manhattan's negro district.

THE GREAT GOD BROWN--Eugene O'Neill's searching and occasionally confusing study of brains on the auction block.

CRAIG'S WIFE--About a woman who wouldn't let her husband smoke a pipe in her parlor.

LESS SERIOUS AT MRS. BEAM'S--The Theatre Guild's English importation about a man who sliced up his wives with a sword.

THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY-- Ina Claire in a brisk and polished nothing about stolen pearls in an English country house.

CRADLE SNATCHERS -- The legend of three weary women who traded, temporarily, their husbands for three young men from college.

WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS -- Barrie's glowing essay on charm admirably interpreted by Helen Hayes.

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